In 1989, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Sidney Altman for their discovery that RNA “is not only a molecule of heredity, but also can function as a biocatalyst,” or enzyme ...

“microRNAs are important for our understanding of embryological development, normal cell physiology, and diseases such as cancer,” said Olle Kämpe, vice chair of the 2024 Nobel Committee ... northern ...

Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

Victor Ambros, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has gained international ...

Now, two women have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for developing ... Toward the beginning of her career, Dr. Doudna studied RNA enzymes with the hope of uncovering their structure ...

the pair had worked out a way to stop the immune system from attacking RNA made in the laboratory, previously seen as a major hurdle against its use. Rickard Sandberg, a member of the Nobel ...

figured out a tiny modification to the building blocks of RNA that made it stealthy enough to slip past immune defenses. Karikó, 68, is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain ...

RNA polymerase is an enzyme that is responsible for copying a DNA sequence into an RNA sequence, duyring the process of transcription. As complex molecule composed of protein subunits, RNA ...

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska ... Subsequent work by Blackburn and Greider identified that enzyme, which is now known as telomerase, and showed that it was composed of both a protein and a ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain cells, causing neuronal damage.